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Role of Robotic Process Automation in the age of Digital Transformation

“Digital Transformation” is one of the buzz words that has been thrown around quite frequently these days. It seems everyone has their own answer to the question “What is Digital Transformation?” A better way to think about it is to address the “Why/How?” questions around Digital Transformation first. In this article, we try to address these questions and also talk about what role does Robotic Process Automation (RPA) play within an Enterprise Digital Transformation journey.

At a high level its actually quite simple. A Business that is “born” Digital, is naturally a “Low/No Friction” or “Low/No Touch” Business. Most Enterprises that provide Goods or Services to Customers still rely on traditional Goods or Services Delivery models which inherently have high overhead and costs built in.

RPA for Consumers

For Consumer Goods, the traditional Delivery model is the Retail store or a Wholesale network as compared to a Digital Delivery For e.g. Amazon was born Digital vs traditional “Big Box” Retailers which had large Investments in Retail Real Estate. Everyone already knows that only a few “Big Box” Retailers have made a relatively successful transition to Digital and many have folded (and some continue to fold).

RPA for Businesses

For Services Businesses, the traditional Service Delivery model is a “middle man” based model. By the time the value exchange happens between a Customer and an Individual or Group with the Subject Matter Expertise, a big chunk of the Value has already disappeared. This is where Online Services/SME based Marketplaces are redefining the Services Delivery models. For e.g. GoCatalant for Management Consulting, UpCounsel for Lawyers, Gigster for Developers etc.

The good news is that many Businesses already have and are in the process of making a successful transformation into the Digital world.

It’s not just about enabling your Product or Services to be sold digitally but also about removing the “friction points” within your Business Processes through streamlined Omni-channel Digital experience.

For e.g. if you are a Financial Institution and you allow your Customer to provide/update their information through your Digital Channels (Web, Mobile etc) but your back end processes/systems are not synced up with your Digital Channels, then your Customers will feel the “friction” eventually.

If I fill out a form for a Credit Card, Insurance or a Loan application, I am not going to wait for a few days or even hours before someone comes back to me with a decision.

There are plenty of financial institutions that will take my information, guide me through the process and give me a decision on the spot (For e.g. GEICO Insurance vs a local Broker based Insurance Application process).

In addition, a “Digital” Business is always learning more about the Customer from the data they gather and making their Products and Services better based on that data. The Digital Transformation journey is about application of front facing frictionless Digital Customer channels, it’s about streamlining of front, middle and back office Business Processes and it’s about using “Digital Trail” of the Customer data to continue to enhance the “frictionless” experience.

By implementing robotic process automation in financial services, companies can quickly address many Digital gaps within Front, Middle and Back Office Business Processes by implementing robotic process automation Software to carry out Processes which are bogged down by patchy IT Implementations and manual Human based processes. Although the Technology projects to automate these Business Processes will continue in many cases, the fact is that RPA in financial services can give the Business the “time to market” advantage that they need to differentiate in the Digital World.

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Estimated Investment

$60000

Time to Recuperate

6months

Annual Savings

$285k

These results are an approximation of what you can expect to invest in deploying a RPA solution for your manual
processes. We make several assumptions that may not apply universally. We would be happy to speak with you and
prepare a customized ROI workup for your specific needs and processes.

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